One of the great things about social media is the ability to learn things you never might have known otherwise. Some of it is stuff you could live without; some of it is highly useful information, though.

One of the social media sites I use frequently is Twitter. It was through a fellow twitterer’s blog that I learned of a new children’s Bible, The Jesus Storybook Bible, by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Now, my family has several children’s Bibles. We don’t need anymore. But Rae’s recommendation was strong enough that while I was in our local Christian bookstore I picked it up. Since then, we haven’t used any other book for our family worship times.

The stories in the JSBB are written in such a way that children of all ages will stay engaged from beginning to end.

Someone would say, “How do you do?” and the other person thought they said, “How ugly are you!” It wasn’t funny. You could be saying something nice like, “Such a lovely morning!” and get a punch in the nose because they thought you said, “Hush up, you’re boring!” (from “A giant staircase to heaven”)

The illustrations, by famed artist Jago, are amazing. There are some stories you normally don’t see in children’s Bibles, “The girl no one wanted” (the story of Rachel and Leah), for example.

But my biggest appreciation for this book comes in the way that Lloyd-Jones points each and every story, including ones from the Old Testament, to the Christ event. Each of the 45 stories is recounted in such a way as to point with certainty to the Gospel. Brilliant. Here’s the ending to the story I quoted above, “A giant staircase to heaven.”

People could never reach up to Heaven, so Heaven would have to come down to them.

And, one day, it would.

The subtitle of the book is “Every story whispers his name.” Indeed they do. And that’s what makes this children’s Bible the only one you’ll ever need.

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